UC San Diego

Dr. Gene "Rusty" Kallenberg is Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine and the Founding Director of UC San Diego Centers for Integrative Health (a member of the Academic Consortium of Integrative Health and Medicine). He was the Chief of the Division of Family Medicine and Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego From 2001 to 2020.  He is currently a Co-PI of the NCCIH UCSD REACH Center for Translational Science in Whole Person Health. Dr. Kallenberg’s interests include new models of primary care, population health, integrative medicine, integrated behavioral health, medical informatics learning health systems, undergraduate/graduate medical education in competency assessment in communication skills, doctor-patient-family relationships and professionalism.

Dr. Ryan  Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, a member of the Center for Integrative Health Research and a faculty member and mentor in the Integrated Cardiovascular Research T32 program. Dr. Bradley’s clinical research focuses on natural products, mind-body practices, and models of Whole Person Health care delivery. In addition to his clinical research, he is a cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiologist, having investigated cannabis- and nutritional-associated cardiovascular risk in multiple longitudinal cohort studies.

He received his Doctor of Naturopathy degree from Bastyr University and his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, where he also completed a 5-year KL2 clinical research training program in the Division of Cardiology. He has published over 115 peer-reviewed research articles and has been an investigator or director on 11 NIH grants, including over 12 years as a director of research training programs. In addition to his roles at UC San Diego, he is a member of the Board of Governors and co-chairs the Strategy Committee  of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). 

Cassandra Vieten is Clinical Professor and Director of the Center for Mindfulness at the Centers for Integrative Health in the Department of Family Medicine at UC San Diego. She is also Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and Clinical Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD. She is Senior Advisor of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation where she served as Executive Director from 2019-2023, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she served as President from 2013-2019.

Her research has focused on spirituality and health, transformative experiences and practices, the development of mindfulness-based interventions for emotional well-being, and development of media technologies to inspire awe. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and completed her research training in behavioral genetics at UC San Francisco. She has authored three books, published numerous articles in scientific journals, and is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and workshop leader.